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What about the best-case optimistic outcomes for AI?

Here are some amazing positive outcomes which I think AI may bring us:

- the breakup of tech monoculture and tech monopolies as it becomes impossible to secure bloated overcomplicated operating systems and software due to never-ending vulnerabilities. Once Mythos/Cyber capabilities become mainstream I think the future of software is small, focused teams building high-quality, securable software in multiple jurisdictions. Monoculture software becomes inherently dangerous. Big bloated tech monopolies like Microsoft will collapse under their own weight. Like what is happening to GitHub right now.

- the ability for small teams to compete with multi-billion-dollar behemoths, and that is already happening right now.

- curing cancer and other scientific breakthroughs like Terence Tao’s use of ChatGPT

- a return to local trust-based networks because digital content can no longer be believed, and that is already happening. Any video can be disqualified as AI, which means people are going back to in-person networks to validate trust.

- you can just do things and learn anything. It's so much easier for me to learn almost any topic with AI-assisted content organization, retrieval, etc.



With each passing day this seems more fantastical to me than sever negative outcome.

We have major black hat cyber security breakthroughs today. Where are the possitive medical breakthroughs?




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